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March 2015

Software

Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio – Sara Itani announces the release of the Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 bringing rich editor support, code completion, REPL, npm package management integration, test explorer and much more making Visual Studio a much better place to work with JavaScript codebases

Syncfusion Essential Studio – Community Licence – ‘ihaynes’ highlights a new license from Syncfusion for their Essentials Studio. The community license gives free access to the whole product for small businesses and individual developers.

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The ASP.NET Developer’s guide to Bootstrap – Jerrie Pelser gives a useful introduction to Bootstrap from the point of view of an ASP.NET Developer, highlighting what the framework does and further useful resources on different aspects of using Bootstrap for your web application’s UI.

Clean Tests: Isolation with Fakes – Jimmy Bogard continues his series on ‘Clean Tests’ taking a look at the edge cases where he considers it appropriate to use fakes to isolate dependencies, and looks at their use.

Learn Roslyn Now: Part 9 Control Flow Analysis – Josh Varty shares part 9 of an interesting looking series on the use of Roslyn. This part explores control flow analysis to look at the entry and exit points of code and to explore the concept of code reachability.

Evolving ASP.NET Apps – Adding Master Pages – Simon Timms continues his series looking at evolving an old legacy ASP.NET application into a more modern one, updating approaches, libraries and techniques. In this post Simon looks at retrofitting master pages.

`Securing and securely calling Web API – Martin Kearn discusses the process of securing an ASP.NET WebAPI service, and making calls to the service passing security details, illustrating with an example.

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Announcing the new Azure App Service – Scott Guthrie announces the launch of the Azure App Service, a new offering built upon Azure Websites and Azure Mobile Services which aims to bring together the mobile and web worlds whilst offering easy connectivity and integration with SASS services such as Office 365, Salesforce, Dynamics, OneDrive, DropBox and much more

Updated DeleteFiles Utility now on Chocolatey – Rick Strahl shares a little but useful utility to recursively delete files from a directory structure, available now as a Chocolatey package, usefully highlighting a really good way of getting utilities like this (and much bigger things too) installed.

Creating a TypeScript Workflow with Gulp – Dan Wahlin takes a look at working with TypeScript when you are not using a mainstream editor which directly supports TypeScript, looking instead at using Gulp to power a TypeScript workflow

Intro to .NET Unit & Integration Testing with SpecsFor – Matt Honeycutt shares a look at the use of his SpecsFor framework for testing at both Unit and Integration level, walking through both the use of the library and tooling as well as the concepts behind testing at these two different levels.